A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

Vaccine. According to the Random House College Dictionary, a vaccine is derived from a cowpox or a person having the disease. The purpose of vaccine is to provide immunity to ...

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Modern medicine can conquer diseases that no amount of wealth or power could beat in centuries past. Small pox and polio have been largely eradicated through vaccination. Tuberculosis and typhoid ...

Mpox cases continue to spread on the African continent, showing an increase of over 500% from last year, data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) showed on Thursday ...

KARACHI: A passengers arriving from Sharjah has shown symptoms of monkeypox during medical screening, ARY News reported on Friday. As per the airport sources, a passenger identified as Javed Ahmed ...

The Special Adviser to the Governor of Cross River State on Health, Ekpo Bassey, has confirmed that the state has recorded two new cases of M-pox. He disclosed this during an interview with ...

The Cross River State Government has discovered two new cases of M-pox in Calabar Municipality, bringing the number of cases identified in the council to five. The Special Adviser to the Governor ...

An outbreak of pox disease in sheep mainly in northern Greece has led to the culling of 17,500 animals and a 10-day nationwide ban on livestock movement and transport. The ban restricts the movement ...

Germany has reported its first case of a new type of Mpox, the virus behind a major outbreak of Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries. The Robert Koch Institute( ...